Drag and drop your way to Android programming. MIT App Inventor, re-released as a beta service (as of March 5, 2012) by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning after taking over the project from Google, is ...

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necessarily ...

Android applications use a range of standard platform resources for designing and programming user interfaces. Android applications use classes in the Java language to implement various aspects of ...

The software developer kit will let programmers create Java software for real or emulated Android mobile phones. Plus: a $10 million contest for coders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

In this post, you will learn about C# programming for Android, as well as where it fits in in the grand scheme of Android development. If you’re interested in becoming an Android developer, you may be ...

If you believe in open source this should be good news. App Inventor for Android opens the creation of apps, for the first time, to non-programmers. The apps you write can access the phone and the ...

The Mi Box is Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi’s play to take on devices like Roku, Apple TV, Android TV and Fire TV. Priced at only $69, and sporting features like integrated Google Cast and voice ...

I didn’t see this coming, but Apple’s Swift programming language is now being officially extended to support Android app development. This is done via an establishment of a dedicated Android Working ...

Apple is bringing support for its Swift programming language to Android, which could offer developers an alternative to Kotlin for app creation on Google's OS. With existing support for Swift on ...